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Impact the Important

September 13, 2010 By George Bradt Leave a Comment

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There was a marked difference between Budget Meetings and Category Reviews at Procter & Gamble when I was there. Budget Meetings Budget Meetings were brand teams' main planning meeting with their head of marketing. Months of preparation when into these two hour meetings. Brand Managers and their internal and external teams were expected to have [...]

Filed Under: Executive Onboarding Tagged With: great leadership, mentor, transformational leadership

Onboarding Decisions

May 19, 2010 By George Bradt Leave a Comment

Four important ideas from Wharton professors last week: Be decisive – Michael Useem Save more earlier – Olivia Mitchell Buy stocks – Jeremy Siegel Advertise on TV – Peter Fader Applause please. I just saved you four hours. Actually, the conversations each of these professors put around these ideas were compelling and well worth participating [...]

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Onboarding Progress

May 16, 2010 By George Bradt Leave a Comment

“…making progress in one’s work – even incremental progress – is more frequently associated with positive emotions and high motivation than any other workday event”. So says Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer in “What Really Motivates Workers” in the Jan/Feb 2010 Harvard Business Review based on their research with 600+ managers. So what? Amabile and [...]

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Simon Sinek on How Great Leaders Inspire Action

May 7, 2010 By George Bradt 1 Comment

I was struck by Simon Sinek’s TED video on How Great Leaders Inspire Action. (Those of you who are not familiar with the TED videos should stop reading right now and click through to www.TED.com and get familiar with them. Many of them are truly astounding.) One of Simon’s core concepts is that people don’t [...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: accelerate, align, better results faster, business leadership, communication, effective management, executive onboarding, good leadership, great leadership, leadership, message, On-boarding, onboarding, onboarding best practice, PrimeGenesis

Contextual Onboarding

February 2, 2010 By George Bradt 1 Comment

In many ways, all onboarding is contextual. It’s about acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating a new team member into the context of the organization. PrimeGenesis’ three core onboarding ideas must be considered in context. Get a head start Aligning the organization before starting recruiting defines the context of the role for the new team member. [...]

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